My Husband Is Leo Tolstoy. My Life

Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya is the wife of Leo Tolstoy.

"And since I myself, by myself, don’t mean anything, and the importance of my forty-two years of married life with Lev Nikolaevich cannot be excluded from his life, I decided to describe, for now only from memories, my own life. If there is time and opportunity, I will try to include some additional details and chronological information taken from letters, diaries, and other sources. I will try to be truthful and sincere to the very end. Every life is interesting, and perhaps mine will one day interest someone from those who would like to know what kind of creature that woman was—whom God and fate saw fit to place beside the life of the brilliant and many-sided Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy."

Gr. Sofya Tolstaya